IMF..TEST PASS?
The Jamaican government have declare that our country have passed the first round of evaluation by the international monetary fund. This multilateral lending agency with its headquarters in the United States of America gives good grade when you sell all your prize assets at steep discount, reduce educational funding, downgrade your public services, pay very low wages, reduce government ...
SYRIA,OBAMA,S VIETNAM
The Obama administration during this period of celebrating the historical march on Washington and remembering the disaster that befell the majority of mostly poor blacks of Louisiana, due to the lack of and disregard of life by the Bush administration, is about to attack the sovereign state of Syria. Obama, a Nobel prize recipient and a constitional law professor will be ignoring the will of the ...
THE CARIBBEAN HAS NOT FORGOTTEN
By: Roberto Castellanos
IN their fight for the vindication of their peoples and the search for justice, the Caribbean nations are to demand from their former metropolises economic and moral reparations for slavery, the genocide of their peoples, and the colonial practices to which they were subjected.
The cornerstone of this demand was affirmed during the 34th Summit of the Caribbean Community ...
DISSIDENTS
By David Brooks
ALMOST everyone talks about how they believed in the official rhetoric of their country, in the mission of the United States as the global guardian of democracy, as the beacon of liberating hope, as an example for humanity.
Almost everyone remembers that is why they joined the ranks of intelligence agencies, the military, the State Department or the FBI. And remember when, with ...
FIDEL ..BIRTHDAYS OF STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE
On Behalf of our people the Jamaica Patriotic Movement wishes you long life and energy to fullfill your mandate of defending our right to choose our path of national development and world peace.It is befitting that we will let you state in your own words the birth dates of ...
THE OPEN WOUNDS OF RACISM IN THE UNITED STATES
Manuel E. Yepe
FIVE years ago, in June 2009, 146 years after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, and 150 days after Barack Obama took his oath as President, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution formally apologizing to the Black citizens of the United States for the suffering they and their ancestors experienced under slavery and Jim Crow. In July 2009 the House of Representatives ...
SYRIA PHANTOM CHEMICAL WEAPONS
Luis Brizuela Bringuez
IT was enough for a high-ranking Israeli intelligence official to allege on April 21 that the Syrian government was deploying chemical weapons against so- called insurgents, for the infamous phantom to reemerge as the pretext for a possible military invention in that country.
Accusations immediately rained down on Damascus from Western capitals and even U.S. President ...
PROFESSOR FALK STIRS A FIRESTORM
by: Sam WebbMay 8 2013
It doesn't take much to agitate the defenders of the official orthodoxy. A case in point is the smear campaign aimed at a recent commentary by Richard Falk reflecting on the horrific terrorist attack in Boston.
Falk is a distinguished emeritus professor of international law at Princeton University and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in ...
JAMAICA POLITICAL/ECONOMIC SYSTEM TODAY
A PARLIAMENTARY POLITICAL ARRANGEMENT THAT REPLICATED OFF THE BRITISH COLONIAL SYSTEM.
THE SYSTEM IS DOMINATED BY TWO POLITICAL PARTIES THAT VIE FOR POLITICAL POWER BY COMPETEING IN CONSTITUENCIES THAT THEY DON'T RESIDE IN.
THE PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM IS SET UP SO BOTH POLITICAL PARTIES USE IT ROTATINGLY TO INFLUENCE AND CORRUPT THE SYSTEM ,EXAMPLE THE ELECTORIAL COMMISSION OF JAMAICA IS ...
THE PIED PIPERS OF JAMAICA
Since our political independence the political machinery dominated by the two main political parties was designed to cater to the rich and powerful in Jamaica. Given the actions of our revolutionary heroes our people were taught to worship anything that have a foreign scent. Our educational system was design to create a middle class that would hold its moral allegiance to the two empires, England ...
THE INCOMPLETE LIBRARY
Written by David Brooks
RECENTLY, a presidential quintet met in Texas to celebrate the opening of a library bearing the name of one of them, thereby rehabilitating, according to public opinion, one of the worst presidents of the modern era.
The George W. Bush Presidential Library was inaugurated in the presence of former presidents of this country and the current one, Barack Obama. These were ...
THE SLAUGHTERING OF THE INNOCENTS
Are we Listening to Bob Marley?By Julian "Jingles" Reynolds
Natural MysticLyrics by Bob Marley
There's a natural mystic blowing through the air;If you listen carefully now you will hear.This could be the first trumpet, might as well be the last:Many more will have to suffer,Many more will have to die - don't ask me why.
My brethren, the reggae icon from Jamaica, the late Robert Nesta ...
ONE MILLION AFRICAN BABIES DIE EVERY YEAR..
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — More than 1 million babies die the day they are born every year, and the 14 countries with the highest rates of first-day deaths are all in Africa, according to a new report released Tuesday.
Somalia, Congo, Mali, Sierra Leone and Central African Republic are the five countries with the highest rates of such deaths, according to the report "Surviving the First Day" from ...
FAMOUS MARCUS GARVEY QUOTES
It is befitting to reflect on one of the greatest icon of Jamaican birth that created mankind greatest inspirational movement during the period of Jim Crow laws in the United States of America of which the Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey was a victim. It is not a coincident that our Government since independence have strive to crush the teachings and practises of our National ...
PEOPLE,S DEMOCRACY TRIUMPH IN VENEZUELA AGAIN!!
The Jamaica Patriotic Movement on behalf of the people of jamaica congratulate Nicolas Maduru for winning and affirming the policies of Hugo Chavez. This victory is a welcome one for Latin America,the Caribbean and all the worlds poor and working class people who are demanding a change for a better life. The Petro- Caribe agreement of which Jamaica is a signatory is in safe hands and will help in ...
JOHN KERRY,S ELECTORAL MEMORY
With the failure of its Plan B (destabilization), the Venezuelan opposition finally, on April 17, called on the National Electoral Council (CNE). It took three days for the Capriles Radonski campaign staff to make a formal complaint calling for a recount of the votes. Before they could arrive at this level of "civilized" behavior, eight people – all Maduro supporters - had to die and the entire ...
THE DUTY TO AVOID A WAR IN KOREA
A few days ago I mentioned the great challenges humanity is currently facing. Intelligent life emerged on our planet approximately 200,000 years ago, although new discoveries demonstrate something else.
This is not to confuse intelligent life with the existence of life which, from its elemental forms in our solar system, emerged millions of years ago.
A virtually infinite number of life forms ...
WE HAVE LOST OUR FRIEND...
In keeping with our tradition of letting the truth be known we have decided to publish the full text of Fidel Castro,s tribute to his friend and comrade the late Hugo Chavez. The main stream media purposely and consistently only report half truth and complete lies to fool our people .
THE best friend the Cuban people have had throughout their history died on the afternoon of March 5. A call via ...
HOW THE REVOLUTION WASN,T TELEVISED IN VENEZUELA AND STILL ISN,T IN THE U.S
by Norman Markowitz
Before Hugo Chavez was widely known in the U.S., Irish film-makers, doing a documentary about Chavez during his second term as Venezeula, found themselves in the middle of a coup lanched by the Venezuelan oligarchy with the support and aid of the U.S. against his government. Although Chavez life was in danger, as were the lives of other members of his government and ...
CHAVEZ..WE WILL MISS YOU!!
On behalf of the people of Jamaica we want to extend to the people of Venezuela our heartfelt condolences to the passing of a true nationalist and anti-imperialist. We thank you Chavez for showing us your kindness and sympathy for the least among us in provide us relief through the petro-caribe program with discounted fuel cost and monetary assistance for development projects. We also thank you ...